tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post5351316196603660433..comments2024-02-23T04:11:30.367-05:00Comments on Combreviations: Honesty is the best policyLaura C. Ombreviationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079133569258549461noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-39007999847192874322009-11-30T21:12:38.563-05:002009-11-30T21:12:38.563-05:00I must say - as I traipse from place to place, I t...I must say - as I traipse from place to place, I too am feeling a small amount of affection for bingol. Welcome to the Curmudgeon Union!<br /><br />(although I must confess, most of my cantankerous ire is pointed at things besides writing these days.)MitMoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05748735568467215959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-24075339253903708382009-11-30T20:50:18.343-05:002009-11-30T20:50:18.343-05:00You only say that because you still owe me $20 for...You only say that because you still owe me $20 for the 'man stamp.'<br /><br />I'm onto you, Ombreviations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-30556945646037451512009-11-30T19:29:03.011-05:002009-11-30T19:29:03.011-05:00Dear bingol,
We are officially best friends.
Sin...Dear bingol,<br /><br />We are officially best friends.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />LauraLaura C. Ombreviationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079133569258549461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-32576286563209506722009-11-30T16:59:58.377-05:002009-11-30T16:59:58.377-05:00You should see me rant when people start talking a...You should see me rant when people start talking about writers spending half our time marketing. That's when I really go berserk! <br /><br />I considered starting my own blog--Midlist Misery Loves Company?--but I wrote a few trial entries, and they all devolved into: 'motherfuckers! motherfuckers! I hate them all!' Which I wasn't so sure really moved the conversational ball down the field.<br /><br />So now I vent in various blog comment sections. I like this one! I feel appreciated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-21569192922966504812009-11-30T16:14:30.155-05:002009-11-30T16:14:30.155-05:00Oh no, please live, Lydia!!Oh no, please live, Lydia!!Laura C. Ombreviationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079133569258549461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-7484585767200499172009-11-30T15:53:09.374-05:002009-11-30T15:53:09.374-05:00I'm sorry but I can't get past the incredi...I'm sorry but I can't get past the incredible urge to make waffles by the truckload every time I visit this blog. It's really messing up my ability to post any kind of intellectual comment on a topic that I really am interested in. Well, that and the fact that I'm battling the worst flu on record.Lydia Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15328254761920829040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-79052248882480253712009-11-30T14:28:48.762-05:002009-11-30T14:28:48.762-05:00Anon--Jeez, you'd think I'd check things l...Anon--Jeez, you'd think I'd check things like that. Alas, in my imagination anything that shows up in my reader is brand new...thanks for pointing it out!<br /><br />And bingol, seriously, I kind of adore you and your realism right now. Don't take crap from anyone!Laura C. Ombreviationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079133569258549461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-17963313001994858002009-11-30T14:26:14.343-05:002009-11-30T14:26:14.343-05:00FYI -- this article is from 2004.FYI -- this article is from 2004.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-70898189410710354202009-11-30T14:11:51.630-05:002009-11-30T14:11:51.630-05:00Bingol, I like that royalties from libaries idea. ...Bingol, I like that royalties from libaries idea. But this is America.<br /><br />All these miserable writers' stories reminds me of Dickens, except maybe just the worst of times.Terry Stonecrophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03726985400500572770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4534000766115116120.post-75800587709977653592009-11-30T13:35:59.305-05:002009-11-30T13:35:59.305-05:00I'm trying to figure why this post--and conver...I'm trying to figure why this post--and conversation--makes me crazy. I think it's because we pretend that these problems are insolvable. <br /><br />I'm not unlike the author in that article. My first novel sold in a two-book, mid-six deal. I'd written nonfiction for low-five before that. My first novels tanked so hard that I walked away from my name entirely. I just got an offer for $30,000 for two novels--just North American rights, so we're hoping that the Brits will come through. Or the Italians, the glorious, glorious Italians.<br /><br />And yeah, paying the mortgage isn't easy--and yeah, this increasingly sucks as I now have kids and real expenses, and can't afford to ignore health insurance for much longer. <br /><br />But what this proves isn't that I oughtta write for love. (I don't; I write because I suck even _more_ at everything else in the world.) This proves that there are some changes--even some easy ones--that the publishing industry oughtta consider if it wants to be sustainable.<br /><br />In the UK, authors get royalties from libraries. Up to six thousand pounds per year, I believe. That would change a lot for writers--and publishers, too.<br /><br />(Also, unless I'm mistaken, the author in that article made well in excess of $200,000 for four books. Yeah, that took her fifteen years--but still, that's a living wage in most places, if you write one book a year, as most of us do.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com